Garment hanger



March 15, 1949. 1.. LEVIN 2,464,324 GARMENT HANGER I Filed Jan. 18, 1947 AW \INVENTOR: LEON LEV/N ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 15, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT HANGER Leon Levin, NewYork, N. Y.

Application January 18, 1947, Serial No. 722,786

2 Claims.

1 My invention relates to hangers for garments and, preferably, to that type of hangers which comprises a garment carrying bar consisting of an arched upper part and a rod connecting the ends of this upper part whereby the hanger is adapted to carry several and different garments, for example, all pieces of a suit or to carry garments with arched shoulders as well as garments with straight folding lines.

It is known to use a hanger of this type for the suspension of trousers or similar garments in such a manner that a bent or folded part of the garment is placed over the lower rod of the hanger. A severe disadvantage of this method is that the garment easily slips from the rod and slides down along the front or the back of the rod. Objects of my invention are to avoid this drawback, to secure the suspended garment to the rod, and to avoid the necessity to suspend the garment in a carefully balanced position.

Other objects are to provide for easy and quick attachment of a garment to the rod of the hanger and for easy and quick disengagement of the garment, to provide one or two clamping members which are slidable along the rod and which can be brought into a garment clamping position and can be Withdrawn from the clamping position by sliding movement, and to secure the clamping member in any of its sliding positions by frictional engagement with the rod.

Further objects are to provide for suitable strength and rigidity of the rod guiding the clamping members, to providethe rod with a relatively broad surface which is positioned about parallel to gripping surfaces of the clamping members whereby a garment can be inserted between these surfaces, and to provide the clamping members with resilient tongues having these gripping surfaces whereby the inserted garment is held by resilient pressure.

Still further objects are to attain these results with simple, inexpensive and reliable means, and to provide for an easy assemblage of the rod and the clamping members.

Still other objects and advantages will appear from the following description of an exemplifying embodiment of my invention, from the appended claims and from the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 shows a, side view of an illustrative embodiment of my invention on a reduced scale.

Fig. 2 shows a part of Fig. 1 On a larger scale, this part comprising a broken off part of the lower rod represented non-sectionally and a clamping Eli 2 member represented out along the line 2-2 in Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 shows a cross-section taken along the line 3--3 in Fig. 2.

- Fig. 4 shows a cross-section taken along the line 4-4 in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing, numeral l indicates the central part of a hanger body. The part i is adapted for suspension, for example, by providing the same with a hook 5 extending from the central part i upwardly. The body of the hanger further comprises two Wings 5 sloping from the central part i in opposite directions, and a rod 7 connecting the outer or lower ends of the wings 6. The parts l, 5, K5 and 1 may form one piece made of plastics or of any other suitable material.

The rod 1 has a narrower part 8 and a broader part 9 positioned on top of the part 8. Another broader part Iii is preferably positioned below the part 8 whereby the cross-section of the rod is shaped like an I. The upper surface of the part 8 or of the rod 1 is smooth and adapted to support a garment placed on and depending from the rod. The front and back portions of the parts 9 and iii form rims projecting beyond the part it. These projecting rims may have continuations l l and I 2 running along the entire outlines of the hanger body.

A member 53 is slidable along the rod l or along asuitable part of the rods length. Preferably, another identically shaped member M is positioned symmetrically to the member 53. The following description of the member it applies to the member M correspondingly.

The member [3 is made of suitably strong and resilient material, for example, of plastics. The member has a longitudinal channel slidably fitting the part 9 of the rod 1. This channel has a ceiling or upper surface it contacting the upper surface of the rod I and has a bottom with a slot I6 for the passage of the part 8 of the rod. The surface l5 may be interrupted by slots ll separating resiliently bendable lateral walls or wings l8 from the central part of the member it. Each wing l8 forms a lateral wall of the channel of the member l3, has a surface l9 contacting a side of the part 9 and has an inwardly directed projection 29 reaching under a rim of the part 9 and contacting the lower surface of this rim.

Preferably, the wings It have such a distance from each other that the surfaces 59 slightly press against the part 9 whereby some friction exists between the rod 1 and the member [3 and the latter will not slide, except when this friction is overcome by intentional application of force. The friction and the engagement between the rod and the member 13 is preferably increased by a suitably uneven shape of the contacting surfaces. For example, the surfaces 19 are serrated or wavy and the contacting surfaces of the part 9 have corresponding serrations or waves 2| whereby each of these surfaces shows projections and recesses alternating in the longitudinal direction of the rod 1. c

The member 13 is brought into slidabl'e engagement with the rod 1 by spreading the resilient wings l8 and moving the member 13 down untilz the surface i5 contacts the upper surface? of the rod and the projections 21] snap under the rim of the part 9. edges of the projections 20. are cut obliquely by surfaces 28 converging in upward direction whereby th wings [8 will spread automaticalry when the member I3 is pressed down over the part9.

The serrations or Waves 2| may extend. over the entire length of the rod! or, preferably, over portions of this length extending from the line- 2.2- to. the line 23 and from the line'24 to the line 25 in Fig. 1 whereby the member I 3 can move between the lines 22 and 23 and the member I4 can move between the lines 24 and 25.

The member l3 has a tongue or projection 25 extending at a small distance over a rod i in a direction toward the-center of the rodor toward the member M. Preferably, the direction of the tongue 26 is slightly sloping toward the. free end of. the tongue whereby upwardly directed pres? sure will bring the tongue into a position about parallel to the upper surface of the rod. The tongue is resilient and forms a flat spring having a. lower gripping surface 21.

Before a garment is attached to the rod 1, the

' members l3'and Mare moved to positions remote from the center of the rod. After a suitable-part or parts of a garment, for example, the foot ends of a pair of trousers have been placed on therod 1, these members are moved toward the center of therod as far as necessary to clamp the garment between the rod and the tongues 26. In this position, the tongues press the garment resiliently against the rod, whereby the garment is secured to the rod. When the garment is. to be taken off the hanger, the members l3and M are withdrawn from the clamping positions to the outer sides.

I desire it understood that my invention is not confined to the particular embodiment shown Preferably, the lower inner 4 and described, the same being merely illustrative, and that my invention may be carried out in other ways without departing from the spirit of my invention as it is obvious that the particular embodiment shown and described is only one of the many that may be employed to attain the objects of my invention.

Having described the nature of my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A garment hanger comprising a part adapt ed to be suspended, a horizontal rod having ends connected to said part, and two members slidable on said rod, each having a resilient projection forming an elongated tongue extending over said rod toward the corresponding projection of the other member at such a distance from said rod that a channel of small height and considerable width is left between said rod and each of said tongues, and that said two channels have facing open sides whereby a garment part can'be clampedbetween said tongues and said rod ina position where said, garment part overlies said rod and extends in straight direction from. one of said channels to the other.

2. A garment hanger comprising a rod, means for suspending said rod in a horizontal position, a: member slidable on said rod, having a surface contacting said rod from the upper side, having lateral walls. contacting lateral surfaces of said rod and havingv inwardly directed projections contacting said rod from the lower side, and a clamping tongue afiixed to saidmember and extending over said. rod at a small distance therefrom, the contacted lateral surfaces of said rod having longitudinally alternating waved-shaped projections and recesses, and the surfaces of said walls contacting said lateral rod surfaces having pro-v jections and recesses corresponding to said first projections and recesses.

- LEON LEVIN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 769,024 Ryan Aug. 30, 1904 1,524,836 Mayer Feb. 3, 1925 1,820,468 Lindgren Aug. 25, 1931 2,061,023 Cohen Nov. 17, 1936 2,364,883 Wahl Dec. 12, 1944 

